Giuliano Modarelli (born 1977) is a
guitarist
A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselv ...
composer and producer from Italy.
Biography
Born in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
in 1977, he moved to England in 2000 where he attended
Leeds College of Music
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populatio ...
. After receiving his Bachelor in jazz music in 2003 he became a full-time musician and started playing with bands like Sawa Teen, Raga Nova and Nshwa with which he played in important festivals such as
Bestival and
Moor Music Festival
The Moor Music Festival was an annual music festival held initially on a farm in Addingham Moorside, near the town of Ilkley, West Yorkshire. For the 2009 and 2010 festivals, the setting was moved to Heslaker Farm near to Skipton in North Yorkshi ...
and on BBC Radio.
In these years he became interested in Indian music and he started studying it with the Indian sitar master Dharambir Singh, sarod maestros Buddhadev Dasgupta and Prattyush Bannerjee.
He is the founder, of the award-winning band Kefaya and the fusion collective
Samay with which he has been invited to participate in international festivals like the WOMAD, Latitude,
London Jazz Festival, Darbar Festival, Music Port Festival and radio and television shows on BBC 1/2/3/6 and Asian Network and Doordarshan TV UK.
In 2008, with famous tabla player
Bickram Ghosh
Bickram Ghosh is an Indian classical tabla player.
Early life
He started learning tabla from his father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh, who had played with Ali Akbar Khan.
Career
Ghosh has performed with Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Ghos ...
, he composed music for
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
films ''
Little Zizou
''Little Zizou'' is a 2008 Indian drama film written and directed by Sooni Taraporevala. ''Little Zizou'' is a comedy about how two battling Mumbai families finally come to terms.
''Little Zizou'' won the "Rajat Kamal" of 'National Film Award f ...
'' and ''The Diamond Murders''.
In the same year he toured India with Ghosh and percussionist
Pete Lockett supporting a musical performance called "East meets West" that made him appear in many Indian national TV programs.
Discography
;Albums
Kefaya - Songs of Our Mothers - 2019 Bella Union
Kefaya - Radio International 2016 Radio International Records_
Sarathy Korwar - Day to Day - 2016 Ninja Tune
Olcay Bayir - Ruya - 2019 ARC Music
Giuliano Modarelli - Englobed - 2012 Manush Records
Sawa Teen
* ''Sawa Teen'' – 2004
Samay
* ''Songs for a Global Journey'' – 2008
Bickram Ghosh & Pete Lockett
*''Kingdom of Rhythm'' - 2008
Kefaya
*''Radio International'' - 2016
*''Songs of our Mothers'' - 2019
Kefaya su Allmusic
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Soundtracks
* ''Little Zizou'' – 2008
* ''The Diamond murders'' – 2008
* Naga The Ethernal Yogi - 2016 composer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8290277/
References
External links
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1977 births
Living people
Italian musicians
Lead guitarists
Italian jazz guitarists
Italian male guitarists
Jazz fusion guitarists
Musicians from Milan
21st-century guitarists
21st-century Italian male musicians
Male jazz musicians